Wildlife Bush Experience

No set dates: Please get in touch – we will try to accommodate to suit your travel dates…

About the Wildlife Bush Experience

This 14-day adventure is an ideal option for wildlife enthusiasts, those people interested in attending a safari guide training course (but are unsure if it is for them) and for the adventurous who want to experience Africa in a different way and learn something whilst doing it.

You will be stationed within the Greater Kruger National Park area of South Africa. This is an area of Kruger to the west of the famous game reserve which is made up of a network of private game reserves all open to each other and all open to Kruger Park itself – in other words – it is an area where the wildlife is free to roam as it pleases between the reserves. Participants in the programme will be immersed in Big 5 country, an area consisting of approximately 3.5 million hectares of African wilderness – the perfect setting for an adventure of a lifetime!

The project also supports a charitable fund which is part of the owner’s belief in Social Responsibility. This year the course is supporting a local man with corneal scarring – see further down for more information.

Package price includes:

Bush walks & game drives

Pick-up and drop off from Eastgate Airport (Hoedspruit Airport / HDS)

Accommodation

3 meals a day (special diets catered for)

Wi-fi

Laundry

Weekly town trips for shopping

If a road transfer direct from Jo’burg to camp is needed then we can arrange this too.

Short, informal lectures designed to give participants an understanding of both animals and nature to enhance their experiences on bush walks and game drives.

Hands-on Experiences

Participants will also get to assist in the conservation of the area with hands-on experience in the Bush. This could include:

Alien plant control

Erosion management

Or it could be working on sustainable projects run by Campfire Academy’s intern students.

Participants must be aware that they will be staying in a BIG 5 game area and that the program may be disrupted at any point by game viewing opportunities, whether it be elephants visiting at the camp fence, giraffes passing by or an early morning wake-up call to go see lions!

Social Responsibility

This is something very important to the people running this course and Afreco Tours Ltd would also like to support and assist. This year they are supporting BobBob – a local worker at Tehila Conservation Centre close to where the course is run.

As a young boy BobBob was diagnosed with corneal scarring in both eyes in the late 1970s. In those days, he was able to get a diagnosis, but treatment was not available to him. Simple eye drops would have healed his eyes.

Now BobBob has extremely limited vision and without corneal grafts he will soon be blind. With blindness comes unemployment and in his own words BobBob say his “life will be over”.

Using #GivingBack Brass Bassett has been Crowd Funding for an operation in one eye. She has just passed the half-way mark of the R77,000.00 (S. African Rand) target. For every booking we receive she will personally donate R3,000.00 to the fund Bobbob until the target is reached!

Total Payment Protection (topp) Policy cover:

Total Payment Protection (topp) Policy cover:

In compliance with The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018, an insurance policy has been arranged with Travel & General Insurance Services Limited (t&g), to protect customers’ prepayments in the unlikely event of our financial failure, and paid in respect of:

• non-flight inclusive packages commencing and returning to the UK
• the ground handling aspects of packages where the customer is responsible for arranging travel to the destination offered on this website
• non-ATOL flight inclusive packages sold to customers outside of the European Economic Area (EEA)
for:
• a refund of such prepayments if customers have not yet travelled, or
• making arrangements to enable the holiday to continue if customers have already travelled
• repatriation of customers as may be applicable, subject to the terms of the insurance policy.

Customers’ prepayments are protected by a topp policy.

In the unlikely event of financial failure please contact the claims helpline on 01702 811397. A copy of the policy is available on request.

This policy is provided by Travel & General Insurance Services Limited (t&g), registered number 02527363 and underwritten by Hiscox Insurance Company Limited (Hiscox), registered number 00070234. t&g and Hiscox are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority (number 113849)